My sobriety ended when Waitrose put its port on offer

Graham Graham writes six pieces in a week and has to write six in a row .

He suffers from a severe illness that has kept him in bed for the last week .

He says it was like F Scott Fitzgerald’s answer to the question of how he became bankrupt: slowly, then all at once.

And that’s it: the Lezard body has been returned to factory settings, and I can go about my business again with a merry heart and a song on my lips. Well, actually it means going back to bed with a good book. I might even read a bit of John Berryman ..